Hi Oleg,
You are not misreading my email. OOo is an immense product with thousands
of packages and a high rate of change. The redesign that you suggest is
happening all of the time, it's just a huge project and it will take a
long time.
Anyone who understands what it means to work on the development of this
technology can tell you that it is not realistic to expect that the build
procedure can be simplified to the point where it only takes a month or
two to learn. This just isn't in the cards. That's why we are proposing to
make our build environments avalable to selected members of the public.
- yba
On 8 Feb 2004, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The problem with public participation in the Hebrew OOo effort is the high
> > cost of maintaining knowledge of how to build OOo. OOo does not build
> > out-of-the-box like Apache or Squid. You have to set up a complex
> > development environment. Just learning how to build OOo takes about six
> > months for a talented programmer.
>
> Jonathan,
>
> I am sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone involved, but I can't help
> but ask this question at this time: can it possibly be a sign that
> "something is definitely wrong"[1]?
>
> If this is indeed the case maybe the main development effort (at Sun
> and elsewhere) should be devoted to providing a sane environment?
> Before doing anything else? Especially if community involvement is
> seriously considered?
>
> Somehow I have a difficulty imagining an open source project (or, more
> generally, a project with community involvement at source level) where
> "just learning how to build [it] takes about six months for a
> talented programmer." As a matter of fact, how does Sun handle adding
> new personnel to the project, for growth or turnover, under such
> circumstances? If every new employee needs 6 months just to learn how
> to build it, and that's under the condition that he/she is
> talented... It seems to me that investing six months of a few talented
> programmers into a redesign of the development/build would be very
> worth Sun's while, if such redesign is feasible at all.
>
> Maybe I am misreading the statement... Sorry again,
>
> [1] "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash
>
>
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